Word: skirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...
...excitement and some other things, too. With him, she is whiled through a hectic Hollywoodian adventure; they cruise around the world, sometimes doing parlor tricks, sometimes performing feats of magic. Back at home, though, the other suitor waits, offering her his stolid security. In the end, wistfully switching her skirt over a fetching figure, she chooses Niven, who turns out to be the homey type after all. The other lover fades away, leaving his air of boredom with the audience. Outside the triangle, some consolation may be found with the nincompoop butler, Hugh Herbert, w ho bungles the works...
...comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers...
...Iowa City (pop. 16,000), where she rooms with a private family, Miss Margaret Campbell got up at 5:45 (it was still dark) one morning last week When she was dressed, in a neat blue silk blouse and a blue wool skirt, she went outdoors to start her 1933 Ford coupe and her day. Miss Campbell, 26, teaches school in a typical one-room country schoolhouse. In such schools, 2,500,000 U. S. children get their education...
...tuition charges amounting to $1,700 a year might be a good reason for Joan's attention to business, but most of the girls are well-off, although there are 33 scholarships, ranging from $100 to $1,000. Generally the girls can afford to be sloppy in sweater & skirt, rumpled polo coat and smudged saddle shoes, as Joan is, but they can also afford expensive outfits. Sarah Lawrence has climbed high in women's education, has earned the reputation of being among the best of women's progressive colleges.* It also has the reputation, which the faculty...